Midland County, Michigan Obituary
Index,
1928–1950

MIDLAND GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT
be
reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other
organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use
this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor,
or the legal representative of the submitter.

Background

This file contains abstracts of obituaries published in
the Midland County Republican and the
Midland Daily News only. The years covered are 1928 through 1950.
The total number of
records are over 8000. A similar book published earlier by the Midland
Genealogical Society
includes a listing of the obituaries reported in three earlier Midland
County newspapers and
covered the years 1872 through 1927. The Republican was published
from 1872 to 1937 at
which time it became the Midland Daily News.

Acknowledgements

This
project was made possible though the efforts of several people
who abstracted and typed the original data. The editor would like
to acknowledge and thank the following volunteers for
their efforts. A big thanks goes to Virginia Parsons who did most
of the transcribing from
microfilm, a huge and time consuming job. Others who helped were
Betty Bellows, Doug
Applegath, Jeri Shangle and Nancy Lackie.

Source

Abstracts were made from the microfilm copies of the original newspapers
in the Grace A. Dow Memorial Library, 1801 West St. Andrews Dr., Midland,
MI 48640.

The entries in this book are only the deaths reported in the
newspapers, not all the deaths that
occurred in Midland County. Some deaths of relatives of residents,
ex-residents and other
notables are also included.

Many entries show more than one newspaper reference. This usually
happened when the death was
the result of an accident or some otherwise newsworthy event.

Other references that may be of help to genealogy researchers
are the Midland County Obituary
Index 1872–1927 and the Midland County Cemetery Records. Both books
were published by
the Society earlier and are available in the Grace
A. Dow Memorial Library in Midland Michigan.

Obtaining a copy of an obituary

Anyone who wishes to obtain full copies
of any obituaries indexed in this volume can do so by
sending their request along with a self addressed envelope to: